Vehicle-wrench



(No Model.)

J. A. MILLER. VEHICLE WRENCH.

Patented Jan. 27,1891.

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NITED STA'rns JOHN A. MILLER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VEHICLE-WRENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,451, dated January 27, 1891.

Application filed November 3,1890 fierial No. 370,193. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN A. MILLER, of St.

Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle" \Vrenches, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in vehicle-wrenches; and it consists of the novel arrangement and combination of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and des ignated in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side eleva' tion of the same with an ordinary ratchetwrench applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of my invention with a perina' nently-attached handle. Fig. 4 is afront ele' vation of the nut-socket.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents my improved socket with a stem 2 secured thereto in any suitable and mechanical manner. Said stem is provided with a perforation, which perforation is provided with screwthreads adapted to receive a handle 3. Said stem should also have an angular form, so that it can be more effectively clamped by an ordinary wrench or placed in the socket of an ordinary ratchet-wrench without turning in said devices when it is desired to use the socket in functional operation. The socket, stem, and handle attached to said stem may be made separately and put together as shown in Fig. 1, or the socket may be used in connection with an ordinary ratchet-wrench, as shown in Fig. 2, and when so used the stem of said socket is placed in the socket of the ratchet-wrench 5, and said socket can be then functionally operated by said ratchet-wrench. The socket may be rigidly secured to an operatingdlandle 6, as shown in Fig. 3.

The object of handle 3 in either of the before-mentioned constructions is to provide a means for holding the socket in contact with the nut when in modus opercmcli.

The socket proper is provided with two or more sockets or sections of different dimensions with their centers in alignment, one of which sections is situated adjacently below the other. tions is of smaller lateral dimensions than the upper section 7. Each of said sections is subdivided by means of triangular depres sions 0 into figures of different proportions, so that each of said sections is adapted to receive two different sizes of nuts, making in all four different sizes of nuts which said socket is adapted to receive. Said sections, by their subdivision arising from the triangular depressions 9 formed therein, are so constructed as to receive a quadrangular, hexagonal, or octagonal nut.

By the construction of the socket, first, in two or more sections of different lateral dimensions, and, secondly, in subdividing said sections by triangular depressions 9, which depressions are situated approximately in the same vertical line, it is Very easy to perceive that said socket is amply adapted to receive quite a number of various sizes of nuts.

Having fully described my invention, I will now proceed to describe its application and use. \Vhenever it is desired to operate a nut, the operator should grasp handle 3 of the socket and apply said socket to the nut to be operated. Then it is only necessary for functional operation to apply any device to the stem of said socket by which it can be turned. For comparatively small nuts section 8 is used, and for larger nuts section 7 is used. However, when the socket is placed on the nut, by turning said socket around the nut will fit in its appropriate depression.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a vehicle-wrench having two sockets of different dimensions, each of which sockets is provided with four triangular side depressions, the smaller socket 8 having side depressions of smaller dimensions than those formed in the larger socket 7, and whereby four squares of different dimensions are formed in the wrench, substantially as specified.

2. The improved wrench consisting of a thin metallic shell 1, adapted for insertion in the end of a vehicle-hub,two sockets 7 and 8, of different dimensions, formed in said shell with their centersin alignment, each of which The lower section 8 of said sec sockets is provided with four triangular side I n testimony whereof I affix my signature in depressions 9, the dimensions of the triangw presence of two Witnesses. lar depressions in the smaller socket being smaller thanthoseformedin the larger socket, JOHN MILLER 5 whereby four squares of different dimensions Witnesses:

are formedin said shell, substantially as speci- E. E. LONGAN, fied, C. F. A. MUELLER. 

